EDA License Engineer — San Francisco

As an EDA License Engineer at NVIDIA, you will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing our engineering software licenses. This position offers an outstanding opportunity to collaborate with world-class engineers and contribute to groundbreaking innovations! What you’ll be doing: • Own the day-to-day operation and lifecycle management of FlexLM/FLEXnet EDA license servers in Linux environments, including installs, upgrades, renewals, rereads, and decommissioning. • Diagnose and resolve license availability, checkout, and performance issues using tools such as lmstat, debug logs, and operational telemetry. • Partner with EDA tool owners, infrastructure teams, and security collaborators to ensure license compliance, access control, and export-restricted usage policies. • Improve reliability and observability of license infrastructure through automation, monitoring, and data analysis of license usage and trends. • Lead or own small to medium-sized projects to improve licensing workflows, tooling, or operational scalability. • Contribute documentation, operational runbooks, and guidelines to support broader team knowledge sharing. • Serve as a technical point of contact for license-related incidents and blocking issues affecting engineering efficiency. What we need to see: • Strong hands-on experience with FlexLM / FLEXnet licensing, including server configuration, license files, daemons, and troubleshooting. Familiarity with Reprise License Manager is a plus. • Solid Linux system administration skills (RHEL/CentOS), including process management, logging, networking basics, and scripting. • Experience operating production infrastructure with high availability and reliability expectations. • Ability to work independently within broadly defined objectives and exercise sound technical judgment. • Demonstrated ability to collaborate across teams and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical collaborators. • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience. • 5+ years of experience in a related field. Ways to stand out from the crowd: • Experience automating operational workflows using scripting (python or shell) or infrastructure tooling such as Ansible. • Familiarity with license allocation methods such as using options files, dedicated license pools, and batch scheduling allocation such as License Scheduler. • Experience supporting EDA toolchains (e.g., Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens) in large engineering environments. • Exposure to security, export-control, or access-restriction requirements in shared compute environments. • Prior ownership of infrastructure projects that improved reliability, scalability, or operational efficiency. #LI-Hybrid  Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and the pay of employees in similar positions. The base salary range is 152,000 USD - 241,500 USD for Level 3, and 184,000 USD - 287,500 USD for Level 4. You will also be eligible for equity and benefits . Applications for this job will be accepted at least until September 15, 2026. This posting is for an existing vacancy.  NVIDIA uses AI tools in its recruiting processes. NVIDIA is committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. As we highly value diversity in our current and future employees, we do not discriminate (including in our hiring and promotion practices) on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law.